Improvement in turn-over shirt-collars



PATENT OFFICE.

NATHANIEL EVANS, JR., OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TURN- OVER sHmT-COLLARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4 1,692, dated FebruaryQ3, 1864.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, N ATHANIEL EVANS, J r., ot' Boston, in the county ofSuii'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Turn-Over Shirt-Coll irs 5 and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had t0 theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which-Figure l is a plan of the collar before it is turned over; and Fig. 2the same turned over and brought into a circular form, as on a personsneck.

Like parts are represented by the sameletters ot reference in bothiigures.

What arelrnown asstand up shirt-collars have been made with regular and,irregular concave bottoms, but no turn-over7 shirtcollar has ever beforebeen made with a concave bottom and turned over on alineparallel withthe bottoms, but the bottoms of all such collars have either beenstraight or convex, in whole or part, and not turned over on a lineparallel with the bottom, and the objection to all such is that the backof the collar being straight or convex, and higher than the front,consequently causes the collar when on a persons neck to pitch or crowdforward or in ward, so as to chate the wearers neck.

The nature of my improvement therefore consists in making a turnlovershirtcollar with a concave bottom, and turned over on a line parallelwith thew bottom, whereby the collar when completed shall be of the sameheight all the way round, and the inner part-t'. e,

that which is attached to the shirt-shall are outward from the bottom,so as not to chafe the wearers neck, leaving at the same time lsufficient space between the two parts of the collar for a necktie orcravat.

I make my collars of any material in general use for such a purpose, andof any desirable style.

Fig. l represents a plan of one of my eollars before it is turned over,e and d being the usual button-holes. The bottom of the collar, as shownin Fig. 1, is concave, or the arc of a circle, and the part B is turnedover onto the part A on the linel w, parallel with the bottom, so that,when the collaris brought intoa circle, as on a persons neck, the part Ashall be all the way of a height and Hare from the bottom outward, asrepresented by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, and for the purpose-specified above, while at the same time the two parts stand out fromeach other enough to aii'ord the requisite space for a necktie orhandkerchief. My plan of cutting out such collars, moreover, involvesless waste of material than any turn over shirt-collars known or usedbefore, and requires no stretching of the material (which operation isboth expensive and weakening) to give the requisite daring form to theinner portion or binding, A. ln fine, my improvement makes, I think', abetter-fitting and cheaper turn over shirtcollar than any other extant.

Having thus described the construction and operation of my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

A turn-over shirt-collar with a concave bottom and turned over on a lineparallel with said bottom, substantially as sett'orth, and for thepurpose described.

Vtnesses NATH L. EVANS, JR.

Jus. F. ELLIS, N. AMES.

